Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab created the list by charting every person to have had their Wikipedia biography page translated into at least 25 different languages as of May 2013.

Birmingham-born Chamberlain has a biography in 57 different languages according to the database, the highest number for any person from the West Midlands.

There are 30 people from the area in the database with musician Ozzy Osbourne the next most world-renowned with a biography in 54 languages.

A surprise entry in the top 10 is Ronnie O’Sullivan, who was actually born in Wordsley, near Stourbridge.

Neville Chamberlain (Image: mirrorpix)

Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and politician Austen Chamberlain, half-brother of Neville Chamberlain, make up the top five.

The person to have had their biographies translated into the most languages is none other than Jesus Christ. His Wikipedia page can be read in no fewer than 216 different dialects and attracts 281,000 page views a month on average.

Barack Obama comes in second with 200 languages followed, somewhat bizarrely, by High School Musical actor Corbin Bleu.

Confucius is the fourth most world-renowned figure ever while Isaac Newton comes in at number five with biographies in 191 languages. This makes Newton the highest ranking Briton.

When it comes to the average number of page views, however, Jesus and Obama can’t hold a candle to Kim Kardashian. She clocks 1.5 million views a month on average - more than five times as many as Christ.

Time Line

Wikipedia's Top 20 Brummies

1) Neville Chamberlain

Former Prime Minister and member of war cabinet

2. Ozzy Osbourne

Bat-biting Black Sabbath wildman of heavy metal rock

3. Francis William Aston

Nobel Prize physicist who made isotope breakthrough

4. Robert Plant

Lion-maned Led Zeppelin frontman now solo success

5. Austen Chamberlain

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Foreign Secretary

6. John Edward Gray

Renowned zoologist after whom several species named

7. Francis Galton

Victorian polymath who wrote 340 papers and books

8. Ronnie O’Sullivan

Snooker legend with most maximum breaks ever - who few know was born in this region